Toddler pulled from backyard pool in Lauderhill

Boy later pronounced dead at the hospital

A one-year-old child was pronounced dead at Plantation General Hospital after being found in a backyard pool, according to Lauderhill Fire Rescue.

It happened around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday behind a single family home on the 8100 block of Northwest 47 Court, Lt. Gerry Gonzalez said.

Two family members were home at the time and they discovered the little boy in the water. They said he was in the pool for only a minute, but the child was not breathing when paramedics arrived, Gonzalez said.

"When they delivered him to Plantation [General Hospital] he still wasn't breathing," he said.

Police were reported to be investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.

Drowning has long been the leading cause of death for children under the age of five in Florida.